34 TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE 



Far better, if we are not going to send our young men 

 to Latin- America, not to invest our money in it; at any 

 rate, if it is not better for the shareholders, it will be 

 better for us from a political point of view. I believe 

 that in Sao Paulo (Brazil) alone there was a round 

 million of Italians in 1912 or 1911, and there must be 

 between 400,000 and 500,000 Germans distributed 

 throughout Brazil generally. It has been contended 

 that the bulk of these are only workmen; this, however, 

 does not make any difference in the regret that I feel 

 that there is not a proportion of English among them, 

 for if you follow the careers of some of these men and 

 take note of the producers of the immense quantities 

 of maize, wheat, refrigerated meat, etc., that is leaving 

 South America every year, you will find that many of 

 those who went out as common labourers are now men of 

 extreme wealth, and are dominating the production if 

 not the export of these valuable shipments; and what 

 other nations can do, I maintain that the Englishman 

 can do in the same way. What the actual number of 

 Englishmen are in that Republic I cannot say, but from 

 all accounts the proportion is very small indeed, although 

 out of our thousand millions invested in Latin-America, 

 one-fourth, or 224 millions, are invested in Brazil alone. 



I believe that even in Argentina, which claims 358 

 millions of our money, the English population is almost at 

 a standstill at any rate, it is not increasing at the rate it 

 should do--and I gather that throughout Latin-America 

 you will find it is the same thing, only far worse, in 

 countries outside of Brazil and the Argentine. 



In urging, therefore, that this country must have an 

 agricultural college in the West Indies, I am not think- 

 ing of these islands alone, but am urging this in order to 

 induce young Englishmen to go out to Latin-America 

 generally to look after and develop our interests there, 

 and so divert the trade to this country instead of allow- 

 ing it to be developed by other nations, who naturally 

 will send the trade to their own countrymen, and not 

 to us. 



There is another point in favour of a second college 

 to be established in the West Indies, which, it must be 



